[Commlist] Call for abstracts: Special issue of/MedieKultur/,Streaming media: production, interfaces, content and users

*Call for abstracts: Special issue of/MedieKultur/
Streaming media: production, interfaces, content and users*

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*Deadline for abstracts: 15^th of October 2020*

Streaming is an increasingly used form of content distribution. Content 
providers from different areas of the media industries have shifted to 
this digital form of distribution and many users have followed. With 
this special issue on streaming media, we are looking for articles that 
study streaming from different perspectives and contribute to a better 
understanding of how streaming is a phenomenon that deeply affects 
established media industries such as film, television, gaming, music, 
radio/podcasts, books and audio books.

Streaming as a technical notion refers to transmitting and receiving 
digital data over the internet; a process distinguished by the end-user 
being able to watch, listen, or read content as the file is being 
transmitted.Streaming as distribution systems hence facilitates 
on-demand use and consumption of media content. However, as 
communication and media scholars we are broadly interested in 
streaming/media/, that is, the structures, relations and practices 
including and surrounding streaming as distribution systems. This 
encompasses (at least) studies of media industries and production, 
interfaces, content, and use of streaming media.

We have seen the emergence of many new streaming services from global 
superplayers as well as national streaming providers and small local 
services. The amount and size of these new streaming services is so 
substantial that we have yet to analyze many of the platforms that are 
available (often through both apps and websites) thoroughly. This 
special issue seeks empirically grounded, conceptual and methodological 
contributions about the changes and continuities represented by 
streaming media.

Accordingly, we encourage contributions to the following topics and are 
grateful for additional perspectives:

  * Key concepts and theoretical discussions in research about streaming
  * Studies of media industries and the impact of streaming on
    organizations and productions
  * How streaming media transform value creation and value networks in
    different industries
  * The strategies of commercial and public media providers facing the
    competition from global superplayers
  * Streaming media and national and/or regional media policy (e.g.
    efforts to sustain media diversity; requirements for a certain
    percentage share of local content)
  * To what extent and how streaming impacts content creation
  * How specific genres are impacted by streaming
  * How audiences/users appropriate and make sense of streaming media,
    or how streaming media have consequences for what content people
    choose to consume
  * The consequences of algorithms and/or personalization of content
    (from a service provider perspective; from a content creator
    perspective; from an interface perspective; from a media user
    perspective)
  * Methodological reflections and discussions about how we should study
    streaming
  * Comparative studies of streaming from different industries (e.g.
    comparing gaming platforms with music platforms)
  * Studies with different data sources on streaming (e.g. comparing
    insights about users with insights about a particular media industry)
  * Transnational studies of streaming
  * The promotion and branding of streaming services and content (e.g.
    trailers, adverts, etc.)

Please submit an extended abstract of 1000 words (including references) 
by 15^th of October on MedieKultur’s 
website:http://www.tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur. No payment from authors 
will be expected.

Authors will be notified of their acceptance by 25^th of October. The 
deadline for submission of full papers is 1^st of January 2021.

Articles that are accepted for further process by the editors will go 
into peer-review in January and February 2021. We expect to have 
decisions on manuscripts and potential further revisions by March. We 
expect to publish this special issue by Summer 2021.

Guest editors for this special issue: Mads Møller Tommerup Andersen 
(Aarhus University) and Marika Lüders (University of Oslo).

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